The Doors of Perception

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discussed in biography

...Devils of Loudun (1952), a brilliantly detailed psychological study of a historical incident in which a group of 17th-century French nuns were allegedly the victims of demonic possession; and
The Doors of Perception (1954), a book about Huxley’s experiences with the hallucinogenic drug mescaline. The author’s lifelong preoccupation with the negative and positive impacts of science and...

influence on the Doors

...Los Angeles, conceived the group after the singer recited one of his poems to the keyboardist on a southern California beach. Morrison took the band’s name from Aldous Huxley’s book on mescaline,
The Doors of Perception, which in turn referred to a line in a poem by William Blake. The Doors acquired a reputation for pushing the boundaries of rock composition, both musically and lyrically,...